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Food handouts won't solve the malnutrition problem stalking Adivasi communities -Brian Lobo

-Scroll.in The government must empower these once proud people – now reduced to lining up for free meals – by giving them real rights to forest resources. Palghar district in Maharashtra is once again in the news for malnutrition-induced deaths of Adivasi children. The state government is in a flurry – with the governor having taken up the matter – and will likely focus on better delivery of its nutrition and health...

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Jim Yong Kim could spoil India's Davos party in 2017 over stunting -Roshan Kishore

-Livemint.com India continues to have high stunting levels, despite impressive growth New Delhi: India has earned a lot of praise from leaders of international economic institutions and forums for being the fastest growing economy in the world in recent years. This might not be the case when world capitalist leaders meet in Davos for the 2017 World Economic Forum in January next year. Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank’s president, has...

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Kerala Leads in Female Literacy, While Tamil Nadu Has Most Women Entrepreneurs -Prachi Salve

-TheWire.in/ IndiaSpend.org But female participation in India’s workforce has declined from 34% in 1999 to 27% in 2014, making it the worst RATe among BRICS nations. The five states with the largest proportion of liteRATe women – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra – account for 53% (4.3 million) of all business establishments owned by women nationwide, although no more than 33% of India’s women live in these states,...

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The battle over Bt cotton -Shamnad Basheer

-The Hindu While Monsanto and Indian seed companies spar, more worrying is the confused lawmaking underpinning regulation of patents Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) breed controversy like no other. Little wonder then that Monsanto’s much-maligned Bt cotton has spawned the mother of all intellectual property (IP) disputes in India, involving at least 15 different proceedings in various courts, government agencies and tribunals at last count. Most proceedings appear to have come at the behest...

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Orphan food? Nay, future of food -Satish Deodhar

-Livemint.com Pulses are important from the perspectives of food security, environmental sustainability and balanced nutrition Most pulses such as pigeon pea (tur dal), black gram (urad), green gram (mung), field beans (waal), moth beans (matki) and horse gram (kulith) are native to the Indian subcontinent and have been an integral part of our diet for centuries. However, the single-minded focus on cereals over the last 50 years—the green revolution in wheat and...

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